PUBlicIMAGEenING: CITY LAB

Michelle Teran explores the interplay between social and media networks within urban environments and creates performances, installations and online works. Her work has been often awarded and commissioned, but also often considered subversive and higly critical. During her stay in the Maastricht, Michelle will investigate local media networks (focusing on video surveillance), conduct a 2 day workshop at Jan van Eyck and propose an urban action. http://www.ubermatic.org/

Michelle recently took part in Maastricht's CONFERENCE: "Lieu de Passages?" that critically investigates Maastricht's cultural politics and it's nomination for European Capital of Culture 2018. She is currently joining BALTAN Laboratory in Eindhoven as artist in residence for production of her new work.

Workshop conducted by Michelle will include technical tutorial, discussion, city research, experiments with different technologies and setups, mapping walks and maybe something else.

On Saturday 23rd at 17:00 PUBlicIMAGenING event CityLab will take place at JVE, hosted by ANNEX in casual format of presentation and discussion (http://pr0be.info/CityLab)

Event will be focusing on City as a Lab, a venue for dynamic interactions of assumed and unknown, protective and invasive, mediated and in-accessible...
Session will feature a dialogue between artist Michelle Teran and academic Bas Van Heur on topics of: trans-disciplinary work/research, positions of critique and engagement in a public sphere (including reference to their recent work), theoretical discourses and polemics around cities (un)visible media (infra)structures.

Introduction and moderation: Željko Blaće, JVE researcher
Responders are invited to contact in advance for coordination: zeljko.blace@janvaneyck.nl

Bas Van Heur is a post-doc researcher
at the Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio, Maastricht University, within the project 'Cities and citizens writing history and shaping the future'.
His research builds on his work in cultural studies, urban geography and political economy, but continues these interests in an explicitly trans-disciplinary setting. Bas is co-organizer of the 'Lieu de Passages' conference (http://lieudepassages.ainsi.nl),
http://www.fdcw.unimaas.nl/staff/default.asp?id=309

Jan van Eyck Academy and Design Department
and developed with assistance of
advising researcher Florian Schneider,
design researcher Angelika Burtscher,
external advisor Bas van Heur (University of Maastricht).